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To: Oral Roberts who wrote (23790)	12/28/2004 12:08:11 PM
From: Orcastraiter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

You're nuts. I don't think that anyone should be disenfranchised. Count the votes, decide the election. That has been done, and now it's time to end it. As for hokey shit...you should cast an eye to Ohio. Imagine having to wait in line 8 hours to cast your vote? Bet the republican suburbs didn't have to wait that long to cast their vote for Bush. Why don't we hear your disgust about these inequities? Because you're a partisan hack...that's why. Orca

To: Oral Roberts who wrote (23790)	12/28/2004 12:34:26 PM
From: Alan Smithee	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 90947

Wonder what the resident smug killer whale has to say about this. Invalidating just these 500 likely fraudulent registrations and the associated votes would give the election to Rossi: Hundreds of bogus registrations found in Seattle Add this to the list of King County voter irregularities. Hundreds of "Seattle voters" list as their residence address various private mailbox services and storage rental facilities. This would seem to be inconsistent with the state's legal definition of residence for voting purposes. A spokesperson for the Secretary of State's office seemed surprised to learn about the large number of mailbox and storage locker registrations. She initially suggested the explanation that these are mailing addresses. They are not. All of these voters are precincted at such addresses, and many have alternate mailing addresses, some of which are in other states and countries. She referred me to King County Elections for an explanation. The person I reached at King County is off on holiday today and promised to give me a more comprehensive answer tomorrow. In the meantime he said that it's "complicated" and that the county "doesn't have a list of all of the private mail services". I interpret that to mean that they recognize this to be a problem, but don't have a good way of dealing with it. I promise to follow up with him tomorrow and get some more information on this. The existence of hundreds of registered voters at non-residential addresses is an obvious security hole, and the lack of procedures to prevent such registrations is an open invitation to commit fraud. When a voter is registered at a real address, her neighbors and others can verify for themselves whether that person is a live human being who is eligible to vote. When people are registered at private mailbox services, who knows who these people are, whether or not they even pick-up their mail there, whether they're eligible and competent, or if they even exist? Indeed, I've already found some seriously suspicious cases, such as where three or more people share the same mailbox, are all registered as permanent absentee voters and have unusual coincidences in names and voting history. Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at 12:20 PM \| Comments (25) Categories: 2004 Governor's Race soundpolitics.com